Month: July 2013

Newswise — LEXINGTON, Ky. (July 26, 2013) — It appears tiny and inconsequential enough, but the “super mouse” — created by researchers at the University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center some six years ago — has spawned plenty of new research into preventing and/or treating many types of cancer. Back in 2007, cancer researcher Vivek

Newswise — LOS ANGELES (July 25, 2013) – As the 2013 recipient of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center’s Pauletta and Denzel Washington Family Gifted Scholars Program in Neuroscience award, Christine R. Carico will spend the next year researching brain disorders like the one that took the life of her father, who survived four years after being diagnosed

Originally published here: http://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2013/tide-is-turning-in-skin-cancer-battle/#sthash.ISRDakUN.ohK9VbCJ.dpuf A decade ago there was little doctors could do to help a patient with advanced-stage melanoma. Now it seems each week yields important new discoveries about the deadly skin cancer. “I’ve been doing this for 30 years, and now is by any measure the most exciting time for melanoma research,” said

The following post first appeared on the Canadian Meso blog, which is a part of the Canadian Cancer Survivor Network‘s recent project committed to providing survivors, patients, families, and the wider public with information and news about asbestos and asbestos-related diseases like mesothelioma. Now that Canada no longer mines or exports asbestos, what are the

(Originally posted here: http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-07-cancer-people-sunbathe.html) Jenna Hoffman thinks that people, herself included, generally look better with a tan – “better than bright white,” she says. So most weekends, she’s lying outside with her eyes closed, listening to music while the sun darkens her skin. If she knows she’ll be outside all day, she wears sunscreen. Otherwise, “I

(Originally published by Maurice Saatchi at: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/10166690/Without-innovation-well-never-cure-cancer.html) The Prime Minister reminds me of Adlai Stevenson’s striking description of President Kennedy as “an idealist without illusions”. He is a realist to say we have quite a way to go to get close to the Government’s goal of “every clinician a researcher” and “every willing patient a research patient”. Speaking